Frédéric François Chopin  1810-1849 was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of French-Polish parentage. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music. Chopin was born in Zelazowa Wola, a village in the Duchy of Warsaw. A renowned child-prodigy pianist and composer, Chopin grew up in Warsaw and completed his music education there; he composed many mature works in Warsaw before leaving Poland in 1830 at age 20, shortly before the November 1830 Uprising.  Following the Russian suppression of the Uprising, he settled in Paris as part of Poland's Great Emigration. During the remaining 19 years of his life, Chopin gave only some 30 public performances, preferring the more intimate atmosphere of the salon; he supported himself by sales of his compositions and as a piano teacher. After some romantic dalliances with Polish women, including an abortive engagement, from 1837 to 1847 he carried on a relationship with the French writer Amantine Dupin (pen name "George Sand"). For most of his life, Chopin suffered from poor health; he died in Paris in 1849 at age 39.  The vast majority of Chopin's works are for solo piano, though he also wrote two piano concertos, a few chamber pieces and some songs to Polish texts. His piano works are often technically demanding, with an emphasis on nuance and expressive depth. Chopin invented the instrumental ballade and made major innovations to the piano sonata, mazurka, waltz, nocturne, polonaise, étude, impromptu, scherzo and prélude.

Chopin: The Man And His Music

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WEINSTOCK, Herbert

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Da Capo Press

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Greenwood Press

Donizetti and the world of opera in Italy, Paris, and Vienna in the first half of the nineteenth century

Octagon Books

Vincenzo Bellini: His Life and His Operas

KNOPF

This book is the first full-length biography in English of the composer of "Don Pasquale" and "Lucia di Lammermoor". Operatically speaking, Gaetano Donizetti shared the first half of the Italian nineteenth century with Rossini and Bellini. Long active throughout Italy, he later branched out to delight audiences in Paris and Vienna.

Donizetti and the World of Opera in Italy, Paris and Vienna in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.

Pantheon Books

Rossini: A Biography

Alfred A. Knopf. New York.

<p>Recounts the life of the nineteenth century Italian composer, examines each of his major operas, and looks at Rossini's changing reputation</p>

Rossini - A Biography

Limelight Editions

Recounts the life of the nineteenth century Italian composer, examines each of his major operas, and looks at Rossini's changing reputation

Tchaikovsky.

Alfred.A. Knopf

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